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All the good of which humanity is capable is comprised in obedience.
John Stuart Mill
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John Stuart Mill
Age: 67 †
Born: 1806
Born: January 1
Died: 1873
Died: January 1
Autobiographer
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Economist
Egalitarianism
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Islington
J. S. Mill
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Every established fact which is too bad to admit of any other defence is always presented to us as an injunction of religion.
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I had learnt from experience that many false opinions may be exchanged for true ones, without in the least altering the habits of mind of which false opinions are made.
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My father taught me that the question Who made me? cannot be answered, since it immediately suggests the further question, Who made God?
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